On Mon 07 Sep 2020 at 17:17:12 (+0300), Reco wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 08:44:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have two underlying questions: > > 1. As everything I currently use runs fine, what would I gain by > > switching to amd64 flavor? > > Short term - you'll gain nothing. Everything will work exactly the same, > barring > third-party software (if any). > > Long term - Debian is one of the last major distributions that keeps > i386 supported. Sooner or later Debian will follow the current trend of > dropping i386. It won't happen in bullseye though. > > > 2.What 32 bit utilities are there to identify the hardware capabilities > > of a particular machine? > > If you mean, "how do I check if my Intel/AMD CPU has that 64-bit > capability", then it's: > > lscpu | grep -w lm > > Otherwise your question is too broad.
The OP is notoriouly tight on bandwidth, so they might want to stick with i386 until their final i386-only machine expires. (Again, assuming they aren't swayed by third-party software.) Cheers, David.
